Quote#Nature
First time shall stay his stayless race
Quote byThomas Lodge · 1558–1625
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Rosalynde: Euphues' Golden Legacy (1590), Montanus' Vow, l. 19.
English (original)
First time shall stay his stayless race, And Winter bless his brows with corn, And snow bemoisten July’s face, And winter spring, and summer mourn, Before my pen by help of fame Cease to recite thy sacred name.
— Thomas Lodge
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